The Interview Podcast
Conversations with people shaping our world. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, the world's most trusted international news provider.
Conversations with people shaping our world, from all around the globe. Listen to The Interview for the best conversations from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, the world's most trusted international news provider.
We hear from titans of business, politics, finance, sport and culture. Global leaders, decision-makers and cultural icons. Politicians, activists and CEOs.
Each interview is around 20-minutes, packed full of insight and analysis, covering some of the biggest issues of our time.
How does it work? Well, at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, our journalists interview amazing people every single day. And on The Interview, we bring them to you.
It’s your one-stop-shop to the best conversations coming out of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, with the people shaping our world, from all over the world.
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Episodes to download
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Inger Ashing: Is the war in Ukraine overshadowing other crises?
Mon 16 May 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the CEO of Save the Children International
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Victoria Spartz: Does her party share her commitment to defeating Putin?
Fri 13 May 2022
Victoria Spartz, Republican Congresswoman is an ardent advocate of US support for Kyiv
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Senator Mark Warner: Are we facing a new Cold War?
Wed 11 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the Chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee
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Jim Green: Has Nasa lost its way?
Mon 9 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Jim Green, former chief scientist at Nasa
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Zoltán Kovács: Whose side is Hungary really on?
Fri 6 May 2022
Zoltán Kovács, Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication on Russia
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Bill Browder: Sanctioning Russia
Wed 4 May 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the financier and anti-Putin campaigner behind the Magnitsky Act
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Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
Mon 2 May 2022
Stephen Sackur interviews Eduard Heger, Prime Minister of Slovakia
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Frances O'Grady: How can workers defend their interests?
Fri 29 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of the UK’s Trades Union Congress
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Slava Vakarchuk: A rock star on the frontline
Wed 27 Apr 2022
A Ukrainian musician who has exchanged stadium gigs for a military uniform
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Making an enemy of Putin
Fri 22 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled Russian businessman
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Kylie Moore-Gilbert: 804 days in an Iranian jail
Wed 20 Apr 2022
The story of an Australian academic who was released from an Iranian jail in 2020
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Omid Djalili: Can jokes be funny without being mean?
Mon 18 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur talks to one of the UK's most popular comedians
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Dr Njoki Ngumi: Can art change Kenya?
Fri 15 Apr 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to one of Kenya’s most ground-breaking cultural figures
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Sergei Guriev: Is Moscow outmanoeuvring the West's sanctions?
Wed 13 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Russian economist
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Tsai Ming-yen: Could Putin’s strategy be a template for China to follow?
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Taipei’s representative to the EU
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Nikita Mazepin: Sanctions on Russia 'are cancel culture'
Fri 8 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to sanctioned F1 Driver Nikita Mazepin.
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Dmytro Kuleba: Is diplomacy at a dead end?
Wed 6 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's Foreign Minister as evidence of atrocities emerges
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Claude Joseph: Can Haiti be saved?
Mon 4 Apr 2022
What will it take to resolve the Caribbean nation's crises?
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Maria Butina: What is Russia achieving in Ukraine?
Fri 1 Apr 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to a pro-Putin member of Russia’s state Duma
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Mairead McGuinness: How far will the EU go to support Kyiv?
Wed 30 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the EU commissioner for financial services
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Ilya Ponomarev: A former Russian MP on fighting Putin
Fri 25 Mar 2022
Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to an ex-Russian MP who is fighting in Ukraine - against Russia
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Francis Fukuyama: The end of the end of history?
Wed 23 Mar 2022
Sarah Montague speaks to the renowned political scientist
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Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to Iván Fischer, Conductor and Composer
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Tobias Ellwood: How should the West stand up to Putin?
Wed 16 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to the prime minister of Norway
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Jonas Gahr Støre: Easing Europe off Russian energy
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya: Is the fate of Belarus tied to the fate of Ukraine?
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to the exiled leader of Belarus's opposition
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Michael Carpenter: Is this a new age of conflict?
Wed 9 Mar 2022
Will Russia's invasion of Ukraine lead to a new, long-term cold war?
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Arseniy Yatsenyuk: Former Ukrainian PM
Mon 7 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
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Andrey Kurkov: Putin's attack on Ukraine's identity
Wed 2 Mar 2022
Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Ukraine's most celebrated novelists